RebeldePorLaPAZ
8th July 2003, 18:01
Now this is the kind of thing that makes me ashamed to be an american. for one i do not belive the death penalty should still be in effect. and two i do not belive us government should be pushing for it to go into effect in puerto rico. let me inform you to whats been going on.
It all started with a kidnapping that lead to the murder of a grocer in San Juan, 1998. They demanded $1 million in ransom,but when they found the police were investigating they are alleged to have shot the man, chopped his body up in little peices and left them along a road side. Yes it is a very bad and violent act but the point is that the US Government wants to exicute these men and therefore want to bring the Death Penalty to Puerto Rico.
"It's not right for the U.S. to impose a law that Puerto Ricans had no hand in crafting," said territorial Sen. Fernando Martin, a member of the Independence Party.
Check out the info from this (can i copy and past info from anther sites? o well)
(bbc news)
Culture clash
Puerto Rico - a self-governing commonwealth of the US - banned capital punishment in 1929.
But American prosecutors have successfully argued that this case is serious enough to enable federal law to be applied.
The decision appears to be opposed by the majority of Puerto Ricans.
Religious and community organisations have vowed to fight it to the very end, describing capital punishment as an affront to their culture.
But US prosecutors seem unmoved, even giving details of where the two men will die if successfully convicted.
They would be transferred to a prison in the US state of Indiana and killed by lethal injection.
(bbc news)
It all started with a kidnapping that lead to the murder of a grocer in San Juan, 1998. They demanded $1 million in ransom,but when they found the police were investigating they are alleged to have shot the man, chopped his body up in little peices and left them along a road side. Yes it is a very bad and violent act but the point is that the US Government wants to exicute these men and therefore want to bring the Death Penalty to Puerto Rico.
"It's not right for the U.S. to impose a law that Puerto Ricans had no hand in crafting," said territorial Sen. Fernando Martin, a member of the Independence Party.
Check out the info from this (can i copy and past info from anther sites? o well)
(bbc news)
Culture clash
Puerto Rico - a self-governing commonwealth of the US - banned capital punishment in 1929.
But American prosecutors have successfully argued that this case is serious enough to enable federal law to be applied.
The decision appears to be opposed by the majority of Puerto Ricans.
Religious and community organisations have vowed to fight it to the very end, describing capital punishment as an affront to their culture.
But US prosecutors seem unmoved, even giving details of where the two men will die if successfully convicted.
They would be transferred to a prison in the US state of Indiana and killed by lethal injection.
(bbc news)